When a school’s policies clashed with the needs of the daughter he wanted to enroll, an Arizona dad fought to overturn them.

A Father Takes on a Charter Network for his Transgender Daughter-Education Week

Meet Adonis Watt, the blind high school running back who's scoring touchdowns. Watt lost his vision at five years old—on the same day he signed up to play youth football. Now he’s hooping with the help of music and scoring TDs for his team. Watch future Hall of Famer Larry Fitzgerald surprise Adonis and his teammates on the premiere of B/Real season 2. 


Meet Adonis Watt—He's Blind and He's Scoring Touchdowns | B/Real

Mekiya, who is African American and works as a social worker, says that women of colour often aren’t listened to by doctors. She had a traumatic experience giving birth to her previous children in hospital and along with the additional risk of coronavirus decided to have her daughter at home with the help of Natalie Watson, co-founder of Steel City Midwives.

‘Black mothers were already scared’: coronavirus home births

A short documentary about Black Lives Matter activism in the Pittsburgh skate community.

In a summer of protest, members of the skateboard community join the push for racial justice

Meet Dr. Mo Khaki – a GP, activist, media personality and an inspiring human being – as he tells us about how the coronavirus has impacted ethnic minority groups in his home city of London.  

Faith on the Covid Frontline

Climate change is fulling the immigration to the USA 

Hunger in Central America fuels illegal migration to the U.S. 

2021 Gold Telly Award. 
A small women's school in the Highlands of Guatemala is making a real difference in the life of not only the indigenous women that attend the school but are breaking stereotypes in their community.  

Changing Guatemala's Indigenous Women Lives Through Business Education

In the heart of arch-Catholic Poland there's a small Muslim village with a picturesque wooden mosque.  The residents of Kruszyniany are Lipka Tatars, a centuries-old ethno-cultural minority.

Shooting in Poland 


10-year-old Nadine from Gaza captured the world's attention when she said she just wanted to be a doctor to help her people. 

We spent a day in Nadine's life. This is how a child's world was turned upside down.

10yo Gaza

In the film “Flamenco Queer,” by Ana González and Frederick Bernas, a queer man’s lifelong passion for flamenco comes out after decades of hiding feminine impulses in a conservative society with rigid cultural traditions.  The documentary has been acquired by The New Yorker and has received support from The Pulitzer Center.

Flamenco Queer – The New Yorker 

Colorado is a mountainous U.S. state known for it is cool weather and popular ski resorts. It is not the kind of place one would expect to find an alligator oasis ,but Young family decided to open gators farm in the heart of Colorado state.

Colorado Gators Reptile Park 

Ismail Matar is a Palestinian refugee and an artist — and the streets of Gaza City are his canvas.

Born and raised in the Khan Younis refugee camp, Ismail has lived his entire life in a war zone — but he strives to bring hope and joy to his community through his artwork.

In May 2021, the Israeli military carried out 11 days of airstrikes in Gaza, killing at least 260 Palestinians, 66 of whom were children. The attacks also destroyed countless homes and buildings, and much of Ismail’s street art became rubble.

For Ismail, rebuilding Gaza City, his home, means painting new images of hope and humanity in Palestine. Today, he helps children use art to channel their feelings and process their grief and trauma so that they can build a brighter future for themselves.

“We have dreams and ambitions,” he said. “We want to live with dignity.”

Doha Debates: Painting A Brighter Future in Palestine

In Xochimilco, Mexico, Manuel Rodriguez is on a mission to save the country’s native and endangered axolotl, a small amphibious animal that can regenerate its body parts. He shelters up to 14,000 creatures at a time at his sanctuary and also puts on a show once a year to educate children and families about the animal in his homemade axolotl costume. He credits the axolotl for helping him find a path away from drugs.

The Guardian of the Axolotl 

Restaurant Samarkand ( Uzbek restaurant) 

‘Left Hook’ follows the journey of first female boxing team in war-torn Gaza between the prejudices of the society and the blockade.

TRT WORLD: Left Hook

The Gentle Barn rescues farm animals with stories of past abuse and hardship.  The animals go through novel forms of rehabilitation, such as acupuncture and reiki in order to, afterwards, offer support to humans struggling with mental and physical issues and life challenges.

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Hug a Cow, Cuddle a Turkey! - A New Form of Therapy

Interview with Maria Figlus. Maria and her family fled to America when Maria was a young girl. Her Dad and uncle were members of  “Ukrainian Sich Riflemen” organisation. They were persecuted. The family first lived in the farm in Ohio, where Maria was making shirts. Then they moved to Buffalo, New York, where her dad opened a Greek Catholic church and was a priest for 10 years. Her family helped all refugees from Ukraine. They organized a Saturday Ukrainian school attended by 40 children. Both of Maria's children speak Ukrainian. When Maria moved to Colorado, she and her daughter, Odarka, began making pysankas. Maria was invited to lectures at the University of Colorado to tell about the history of Ukraine and tell about types and history of pysanka . Maria is 94 years old now and she is still educated people about Ukrainian culture.

Profile of Ukrainian American Maria Figlus

Founded in the early days of still open source internet, Couchsurfing rejected capitalist norms and promised a revolution in the way we travel and connect with others around the globe.  In 2020, in stark contrast to its long held values, the service implemented a mandatory access fee, alienating many of its users and leaving longtime Couchsurfers wondering: is our global revolution still alive?

A mini-doc by
Matt Dworzańczyk

Produced for NBClx by
Etherium Sky Media

Is Our Couchsurfing Revolution Still Alive?

Mining Bitcoin sustainably - A Cleaner Bitcoin

Bitcoin Mining

Judith Estrada Garcia

New Orleans Artist

Ukraine-Russia -4 Interviews 

The city of Lviv in western Ukraine is 50 miles from the Polish border. It's been the departure point for many of the 2 million refugees who have fled Ukraine. But with weapons and medic training for volunteers, it's also becoming the center of the country's resistance against Russia. Some of Lviv's residents have turned their homes and businesses into shelters for refugees passing through the city. Chad has turned his bar into a place for people to hide during airstrikes and a depot for volunteers to gather food and supplies to send to more dangerous parts of the country.

Polish Families Host Ukrainian Families

Ukraine-Mariupol Siege / Putin's phone call to Erdogan (3interviews)

Skype Interview - Start of Istanbul Ukraine-Russia Talks 29March2022

Su proyecto se llama “república revaluada” y su intención, como el nombre lo indica, es revaluar la moneda venezolana: el bolívar.



La causa de “la chama que pinta billetes" hasta lograr "una nueva Venezuela"

¿Qué pasó en la ciudad donde encontraron asesinados a centenares de civiles ucranianos?

El horror de Bucha

La combinación de una inflación sin control, bajos salarios y alta inseguridad hace que muchos venezolanos empiecen a abandonar Argentina, el país que los recibió años atrás. Un informe para la Voz de América 

Miles de venezolanos sufren la inflación sin control en Argentina

Detecting Local Pollution

Domestic violence between American mother and Turkish father

L.A. County keeps mask mandate at airports, on public transit, despite federal changes

For Second Straight Year, California Sees a Population Decline

We asked Kotaru Uchikoshi, the creator of 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Virtue's Last Reward and the upcoming Zero Time Dilemma, to create a stage in Super Mario Maker. The results are decidedly Zero Escapey.

Vox Meida/Polygon - Zero Escape Creator Kotaro Uchikoshi Plays Super Mario Maker

Being a professional ninja might sound like a little kid's fantasy, but in Aichi, Japan it's a very real job you can have as an adult. Aichi is the birthplace of the Samurai warrior and there are still many places in the city related to Samurai history, from castles to battlegrounds, that people can visit. The ninjas serve as publicists for these sites in order to help boost tourism.


Ninjas for Hire for DDN's Seeker Network

DC Protest - Monday

[MundoFOX] Primera Dama de Honduras visita Sur de Texas para ver la realidad de miles de niños centroamericanos detenidos on Vimeo

360 video for Hotels.com

Undocumented Hero-Univision Noticias

Drone reel from Berlin, Cologne, Havana, Amsterdam, Portland and Myersville.

Drone reel

Great Continental Railway Journeys - Kiev to Odessa

BBC - Debaltseve Retreat

Ukraine: On a drone mission in Donetsk - BBC News

Detention Centers and Migrant Stories

I crossed the border into Mexico and entered a migrant shelter in Reynosa to do a live shot and interview several migrants (Venezuela, Cuba, Central America, etc) and report living conditions 

Entering a migrant shelter in Reynosa, Mexico

NBA2K Toa Baja Court Launch

Assoc. Prof. Murat ASLAN
Faculty Member of Hasan Kalyoncu University, SETA Researcher, Director of KALMEC
(Security, Defense, Foreign Policy)
He graduated from War College in the field of Management in 1991. He assumed varying tasks and appointments in the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF). He graduated with Master’s (2010) and Ph.D. programs (2017) in the International Relations Department of the Middle Eastern Technical University. He scrutinized the Chinese soft power practices through cultural diffusion efforts and African policy for a Master’s degree. His Ph. D. research was about intelligence and propaganda efforts in peace-oriented undertakings based on the UN and NATO practices in Bosnia and Afghanistan.
His studies are primarily on security and defense studies, the conceptualization of power, intelligence and propaganda practices. He had been commissioned to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Bosnia, facilitating the comparison of theory and practice when he was in Service. The primary region he has been interested in is the Middle East; he had monitored wider Afghanistan, the Balkans, the USA, and China as a secondary academic effort. He was a faculty member of the Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University of Turkey after teaching as a visiting scholar at Başkent University. He is currently a faculty member at Hasan Kalyoncu University and a Researcher at SETA Foundation. Meanwhile, he is the director of the Kalyoncu Middle East Center.
Aslan is the author of the books - Security Sector Reform for Libya: A Crucial Step Towards State Building, Intelligence and Propaganda: The Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Afghanistan, other than academic articles. He edited the books Afghanistan: the Hundred Years’ Crisis (with Prof. Ramazan Erdag) and Turkiye’s Counter Terrorism: Concept, Procedures, and Methodology. 


Murat A.

**  I live on the move and regularly work in different countries!  **
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BA in Film Production / Directing Fiction from Columbia College in Chicago, US.  

I have worked extensively in Central and North America and Germany and for nearly 10 years I was based in Vietnam, working all across Asia, even once in North Korea.  

My past clients include BBC, NBC, CNN, Insider Inc, Channel NewsAsia, TRT, VTV and other media networks.  I've done work for Ericsson, PwC, CARE Int'l and the UN.  I've worked on productions such as "The Dark Knight", "Prison Break" and the 2019 Hollywood reboot of "Charlie's Angels".  I've also shot 3 of my own feature films and numerous shorts.  My own film work has won awards at int'l film festivals and online has reached viewership in the millions.

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Matt D.

Irene Herrera, PhD(c) is a roving Cuban-Venezuelan documentary filmmaker. Among her non-fiction works are Kodo wa Awaseba (Gran Prix Expo Aichi Film Fest); Gaijin no Honne (2004); You Can Call Me Nikkie (2008); Women in Refugee: Stories from a Border (2009); Crossing Hispaniola (2010); Spirits to Enlightenment (2012-HotDocs) and Cracked Foundations a 28-min. documentary broadcasted on NHK World.  Irene has also been an active producer and director for the Lebanon and Japan chapters of the Global Lives Project. In 2008 she was a fellow at the Flaherty Film Seminar and in 2009 a Resident Professional at the Knight Center for International Media.  Her journalistic work has been published by The Japan Times, AFP, Al Jazeera Plus, CNNE, Globovision, MSNBC.com, Discovery Digital, NHK World, LinkTV, Center for Investigative Reporting and PBS Newshour. She has traveled to over 60 countries and gets by in 5 languages. For published content: https://ireneherrera.contently.com

Irene H.

Visual journalist (photo and video) currently based in Washington, DC specializing in documentary and editorial visuals whose work has been published on CNN, NBC News, AJ+ (Al-Jazeera), Fusion, NPR, and other news outlets in addition to working corporate clients such as the United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), The Human Rights Campaign, Starbucks, People Magazine, etc. 

Armando finished his tenure as a communications fellow in 2014 at the United Nations University for Peace where he also worked as their official photographer/videographer documenting the different dignitaries and events occurring at the University. He also received a Master's in Media, Peace and Conflict studies from the aforementioned institution and holds a Bachelor's in Political Science.

Armando's work has been exhibited in California and Washington, DC where he received 'Best in show' during the 'Exposed DC' exhibit at the Longview Gallery. He's also a proud alumni of the Eddie Adams Workshop XXIX.

For more on his work visit: www.okaybokeh.com

Armando G.

Director of photography, breaking news,  and field production of long and short-format documentaries, episodic doc-reality, unscripted television/film, international communication, and location scouting domestically and abroad. It also specializes in documentaries. Extensive experience in the coverage and analysis of broadcast news operations and the training of camera operators, video editors, and producers. I have directed workshops in several Latin American countries.
Awards:  2021 Golden Peoples Telly Award.
                   2022 Bronze Peoples Telly Award.
                   2023 Silver Peoples Telly Award 
I have extensive experience working in remote locations in and around Guatemala, Belize, and the Yucatan Peninsula jungles. Extensive travel in Latin America.
With 20 years of news and documentary remote-location jungle videography experience,  I have worked with Discovery Channel, History Channel, Travel Channel, National Geographic Newsy, Reuters, CNN, ABC, BET, CBS, NBC, and PBS.

Martin A.

Yasser Abu Wazna is a multi-media journalist and producer based in the Gaza Strip.  He's produced a wide range of short documentary and television projects for TRT WORLD,  Al Jazeera, NEW YORK POST, Business Insider, GLOBAL CITIZEN, AJ+, ensia, Zoomin, and several other networks and outlets. His magnificent 8-part series about the Gaza Return March for the AJ+ is one of their top viewed videos, garnering over 8 million views across several multi-language platforms.
Testimonials about Yasser Abu Wazna
* "... Yasser goes to great lengths to capture the unrest and often danger during the marches in Gaza, where he risks his life to bring our footage. Finally, he is a professional and stunning video journalist who always looks for original stories at short notice that he pitches to AJ Plus..."  _ AJ Plus
* "Yasser is a pleasure to work with. He submitted all of the footage on time, and communicate well. He is an excellent shooter and interviewer". _ Aljazeera
*  "... he provides excellent films (and) very nice shot, and didn't require revisions. Very easy to work with". _ Zinc
*  "Yasser is a true professional. Every project we work on together is better than the last. More to come! Yasser is an exceptional storyteller and filmmaker, thinking through ideas to raise the bar on each project. Regardless of the assignment size, Yasser delivers on time with more content than requested for back-and-forth collaboration ".  _ GLOBAL CITIZEN

Yasser A.

Anna Clare Spelman is a documentary filmmaker, DP, and editor whose work revolves around working with individuals to tell empowering stories about women and people in the LGBT community, and exploring the causes and consequences of immigration. She is interested in how we create identity and find community, particularly in the context of religion. Her first feature film is currently in production. She has collaborated with Univision News, Blue Chalk Media, Al Jazeera, and TIME Magazine, among others. Anna's projects have taken her to India, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Puerto Rico, Panama, Cuba, México, and across the United States. Her work has been recognized by the North Carolina Press Photographers Association, College Photographer of the Year, NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism, and she was nominated for a 2016 News and Documentary Emmy Award. A short documentary for Time Magazine was named a Vimeo Staff Pick in 2018 and won the Webby Awards’ People's Choice Award and Judges Award in the News and Politics category. She is an Adelante Fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation, and holds a B.A. in Women/Gender/Sexuality Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.A. in Visual Journalism from The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is fluent in English and Spanish and comfortable working in both languages.

Anna S.

Nick Childers is an Emmy award-winning visual journalist and documentary filmmaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He’s the son of a Chilean immigrant and blue-collar Appalachian. Nick has filmed and produced documentaries, news videos, and photo assignments for outlets like The Washington Post, The Guardian, NBC News, VICE News, CNN, Associated Press, Topic, The Wall Street Journal, BRIC TV, Village Voice, Public Source, Postindustrial and is an alumnus of Pratt Institute, Missouri Photo Workshop, UnionDocs, HEFAT, Pittsburgh Filmmaker's Flight School Fellowship, and CAPA Pittsburgh. Nick has covered stories like the war in eastern Ukraine, the Tree of Life shooting, labor in the Rust Belt and Appalachia, home-birth during COVID, Black Lives Matter protests in Pittsburgh, abuse within the Catholic Church, and Caribbean pirate FM radio in Brooklyn. He’s the director of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Video Consortium and a member of NPPA, Storyhunter, Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, and Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. Nick works independently as a freelance visual journalist, camera operator, director, producer, local fixer and multi-media editor for a variety of editorial and commercial clients. He owns and operates a full Sony FX6 package as a one-man-band.

Nick C.

Ana Gonzalez is a producer/director & journalist with experience in more than 20 countries. She has collaborated with media outlets such as the BBC, Atlas Obscura, NatGeo, TIME, Al Jazeera, Mediaset and others. In 2021, her documentary “Flamenco Queer” was released by The New Yorker with support from the Pulitzer Center. Ana was previously a correspondent for an international press agency in Paris and Bangkok, where she helped the company set up its multimedia headquarters for Asia –a continent she went on to explore extensively during four years as a freelance filmmaker with a base in Indonesia.

 In 2020, she founded Eye Rise Films –an audiovisual production house (with headquarters in London and Barcelona) which tells stories that challenge the way we perceive the world. ERF offers production services for commercial productions, branded content, documentaries, series and others, from conception to delivery. The production company counts with an experienced crew and high-end equipment available for productions worldwide.

Ana G.

There are only two major documentary shows produced in Ukraine that I haven't been part of. Netflix's 'Winter on fire' and BBC's Ukrainian episode of the 'Top gear'. The first one didn't need me being based at the real-time footage filmed by more than 100 video streamers of the Maidan Revolution in 2014. The second one turned out to be dull. 'The Russian Woodpecker' about Chernobyl zone which was also advertised as something big coming from Ukraine is more of a sensationalist trick rather than a documentary. Each and every big Western documentary production company working in Ukraine has hired me to do the job.

Major works are listed on my IMDB profile and at my agency's website.
IMDB profile: imdb.com/name/nm3002393
Website: fixerukraine.com
 
I've worked as a local producer/ fixer for the majority of the Vice's shows in Ukraine including 'Cold War 2.0', 'Black Market', 'Cyberwar', 'Gaycation' and 'World in Disarray', BBC's 'The Great Continental Railway Show with Michael Portillo' and 'Inside Chernobyl's Megatomb', Chernobyl's episode of the 'Abandoned Engineering' fro Discovery, History's 'Cities of Underworld' and many more. 

Here is short CV:
2014 - 2018 - full-time freelance local producer/ fixer (NBC, NatGeo, Vice, BBC, AJ, Discovery, RTL4, BNN Vara etc.)

2014 - 2016 - producer (Vocativ) 

2004 - 2014 - part-time fixer for Western media/ television director & presenter for local media (1+1, STB, New Channel)  

2002 - 2004 - E.Muskie program fellow (Ohio University Graduate Media Arts program)   

1998 - 2004 - journalist for the major Ukrainian television companies (1+1, First National Channel, Inter)    

Dima  K.

Experienced video Director /DP /producer, and Editor , photographer and Drone Operator  with FAA Part 107 license and insurance . Team player, skilled at pre-visualization and working with variety of clients to create storyboards and help conceptualize ideas tailored to their needs and messaging. Work with commercials, branded content, Documentaries and corporate videos - internal and external, I am adept at taking a project from initial concept all the way through to final deliverables. In addition I film 360 VR videos, do live streaming, and have done lots of  aerial filming all around the world.  I have done extensive work with animators and graphic designers and have experience with green screen filming and lighting. In addition I have extensive studio  experience in both still and video productions. I have contacts at numerous companies and am great at pitching and bringing in new business.
I edit on Premiere  and After Effects and have several drones including the Inspire and Mavic 3 Pro.


Aaron F.

Creative and driven journalist with 8+ years of experience. Dedicated professional highly skilled in handling tense situations. Adept in incorporating in feedback and digital storytelling. Successful at dynamic story pitching.                                                                  
Education: University of culture and art (Ukraine)
WSH Katowice (Poland)
Training
“Journalism', Media Management” (Austria)
Film & Television
Voice of America
Journalist/ News reporter ( 2020-now)
“33TV Channel”
Guest auditor (2012-2013)
Journalist/ Writer (2013-2015)
“STB Channel” (2015-2016)
Screenwriter in a comedy sketch show “When we are at home” (Kyiv)
Screenwriter and actress in a TV-show “Show 316” (Khmelnitsky)
 
“NLO TV”
Actress in a bit parts of sketch show “U country”
Special skills: Video editing, Photoshop

Lana P.

Víctor Castillo is a bilingual news reporter, specialized in the U.S.-México border, covering stories on immigration, border security, human trafficking, human smuggling, drug trafficking, politics, economy and news happening along the southern border

He was recently featured on Border Wars by National Geographic. He's done work for Univision, MundoFOX, Televisa, Telemundo, FOX, CBS, CNN, PBS and Voice of America.

The United Nations Office against Drugs and Crime, invited Castillo to Colombia to speak about human trafficking and illicit trade of undocumented immigrants along the Texas-Mexico border.

Victor Castillo is a Texas Associated Press Broadcasters award-winner and recently honored with the 2014 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for his contribution with interviews for PBS Frontline documentary “Rape in the Fields” and the Spanish version for Univision “Aquí y Ahora” documentary “Violación de un Sueño”

Victor C.

Cidam Yucel is a Journalist/Tv Presenter and Producer, Master of Ceremonies, Voiceover Artist and Body Language Expert..
She has 13 years of experience in news broadcasting. She presented news bulletins, wrote news reports and scripts, supervised the everyday operations of daily Tv programs. Her experience in media as a producer and presenter allows her to have excellent knowledge of Turkish media.
She is also a professional voiceover artist with over 10 years of experience in the industry.
She has extensive knowledge and experience in event management (including international festivals, concerts, panels, academic meetings and etc) and communication and awareness raising activities (such as local and international campaigns, providing electronic and print visibility and campaign materials and publications)
She also hosts for staged events, performances, parties or meetings, variety of forums and panel discussions as a master of ceremonies and moderator.
She teaches courses on body language and public speaking for entrepreneurs, politicians, students etc.
She is a Turkish native speaker with fluent level of English.

Cidam Y.

I am a journalist specialized in International Affairs working at TN (Todo Noticias in Spanish), the most viewed TV channel in Argentina. Nowadays I am the International Editor and the local coordinator of the most important media alliance in Latin America (Latin American Informative Alliance). For almost two months I covered the war in Ukraine, the elections in Brazil, the attempted coup and the Mapuche conflict in Chile, among other coverage. Related to my academic history, I have a BA. in Journalism and two years ago I finished a MA. in International Studies at the Torcuato di Tella University (pending thesis).

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